We consider a certain family of Kudla–Rapoport cycles on an integral model of a Shimura variety attached to a unitary group of signature (1, 1), and prove that the arithmetic degrees of these cycles are Fourier coefficients of the central derivative of an Eisenstein series of genus 2. The integral model in question parameterizes abelian surfaces equipped with a non-principal polarization and an action of an imaginary quadratic number ring, and in this setting the cycles are degenerate: they may contain components of positive dimension. This result can be viewed as confirmation, in the degenerate setting and for dimension 2, of conjectures of Kudla and Kudla–Rapoport that predict relations between the intersection numbers of special cycles and the Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms.

We investigate the special fibres of Siegel modular varieties with Iwahori level structure. On these spaces, we have the Newton stratification, and the Kottwitz–Rapoport (KR) stratification; one would like to understand how these stratifications are related to each other. We give a simple description of all KR strata which are entirely contained in the supersingular locus as disjoint unions of Deligne–Lusztig varieties. We also give an explicit numerical description of the KR stratification in terms of abelian varieties.

We continue our study of the reduction of PEL Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure at primes p at which the group defining the Shimura variety ramifies. We describe ‘good’ p-adic integral models of these Shimura varieties and study their étale local structure. In the present paper we mainly concentrate on the case of unitary groups for a ramified quadratic extension. Some of our results are applications of the theory of twisted affine flag varieties that we developed in a previous paper.

We explain three methods for showing that the $p$-adic monodromy of a modular family of abelian varieties is ‘as large as possible', and illustrate them in the case of the ordinary locus of the moduli space of $g$-dimensional principally polarized abelian varieties over a field of characteristic $p$. The first method originated from Ribet's proof of the irreducibility of the Igusa tower for Hilbert modular varieties. The second and third methods both exploit Hecke correspondences near a hypersymmetric point, but in slightly different ways. The third method was inspired by work of Hida, plus a group theoretic argument for the maximality of $\ell$-adic monodromy with $\ell\neq p$.

in this article we compare different conditions on abelian schemes with real multiplication which occur in the integral models of the hilbert–blumenthal shimura variety considered by rapoport, deligne, pappas and kottwitz. we show that the models studied by deligne/pappas and kottwitz are isomorphic over $\mathrm{spec}\mathbb{z}_{(p)}$. we also examine the associated local models and prove that they are equal.

let $\pi$ be a cuspidal automorphic representation of $\mathrm{gl}_n(\mathbb{a}_{\mathbb{q}})$ with non-vanishing cohomology. under a certain local non-vanishing assumption we prove the rationality of the values of the automorphic $l$-function attached to $\pi$ at critical points. conjecturally, any motivic $l$-function coincides with an $l$-function attached to an automorphic representation on $\mathrm{gl}_n$, hence, our result corresponds to a conjecture of deligne on critical values of motivic $l$-functions.